Vol. 29, No. 19 
Parsons’ New SRS Waste Plant Baseline to Address Schedule, Work Concerns
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Cleanup & Remediation
AECOM, BWXT Teams Keep Eyes on SRS Waste Contract Prize
Top executives at AECOM and BWX Technologies this week made clear their companies still aim to come out on top in the extended contest for a multibillion-dollar contract at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. David Black, senior… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Major Yucca Bill Passes House on Bipartisan Vote; Heller Vows Swift Death in Senate
In a vote more than a decade in the making, the House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would smooth the way for the Department of Energy to build a permanent nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nev. The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2018 (H.R. 3053), shepherded through […]
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Budget & Policy
House Subcommittee Passes 2019 DOE Budget Bill; DOE Cleanup Would Get $6.9B
The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee on Monday approved a roughly $36-billion fiscal 2019 Department of Energy budget bill, which heads to the full committee for a markup Wednesday. The Energy Department would receive a 5-percent budget… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Tunnel Collapse Jump-Starts DOE Risk Assessment Across Cleanup Complex
A year after the partial collapse of a tunnel used to store highly radioactively contaminated equipment at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Department of Energy is examining risks at the facility and across its cleanup complex. Work also continues to stabilize… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Transuranic Waste
New Mexico Could Rule Within Weeks on Counting Waste Volume at WIPP
The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) plans to rule by June 1 on a proposal from the U.S. Energy Department to modify the method used to calculate the volume of transuranic waste being disposed of at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The Energy Department… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Hanford Developing Strategy for Closing C Farm Waste Tanks
The Department of Energy on June 4 will start taking comments on a draft evaluation on the strategy for closing the 16 tanks in the C Farm radioactive waste storage area. The announcement of the draft evaluation indicates DOE is interested in landfill closure of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Merger With CH2M, Increased Federal Spending Has Jacobs Upbeat
Jacobs Engineering hopes to sign more long-term government contracts following its December purchase of CH2M, Chairman and CEO Steve Demetriou said Tuesday. “We recently commenced work on the management and operations contract with the Department of Energy at… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Budget & Policy
House NDAA Would Require DOE to Alert Congress About Hanford Releases
The House’s version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act would require the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management office to notify Congress within two days if more workers are contaminated by radioactive material at the Hanford site in Washington… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Vitrification & Grout
Perma-Fix Upbeat on New Vitrification Technology
By John Stang Perma-Fix Environmental Services executives said Wednesday they see the potential for at least $5 million in annual revenue from a specialized radioactive waste vitrification system now being tested. In a conference call to discuss Perma-Fix’s latest… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus Revenue Increases, Legal Fight With DOE Ends
Centrus Energy reaped far more revenue in the first quarter of 2018 than it did during the same period of 2017, but still reported a net loss during for its latest earnings period. The Rockville, Md.-based uranium fuel provider reported $35.7 million in revenue… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Contractor WRPS Issues RFI
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the tank management contractor for the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, has issued a request for information (RFI) for subcontractors interested in doing construction work inside the tank farm. WRPS… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Vitrification & Grout
Wrap Up: Contractor Looks at Concrete Testing Subs at SRS Saltstone Unit
An Energy Department contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina is seeking expressions of interest from subcontractors potentially interested in conducting concrete testing at Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 7. Savannah River Remediation said in… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]